People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.
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Related Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, in... VINCENT MCNABB All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Libe... DADA BHAGWAN before you revolt against a dictator , rebellion against god, because he is the most bloody dictator ARYABOD SIHARYVANI I've always called it a rebellion. People were rebelling against injustice. They demanded to be hear... ANGELA LEISURE Don't go fighting against the Spring. E.M. FORSTER [Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore pr... JOHN R.W. STOTT You ruin is your rebellion against God. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. DR. ALLAN FROMME People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. ALLAN FROMME, DR. I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. BROOKS ATKINSON Latin America is experiencing a rebellion against deprivation. FELIPE GONZALEZ Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own... ORSON PRATT those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the i... ALISTER E. MCGRATH He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching). DAVID LEVITHAN I have strong moral objections to creating human organisms in order to harvest cells from them in a ... EDWARD WHELAN Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion a... HENRY KNOX When the private sector does a similar thing people need to voice their objections. LUMKILE MONDI Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of ... FLOYD DELL The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules. SHANNON A. THOMPSON I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work BROOKS ATKINSON War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera. BIBLE Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. JAMES BRANCH CABELL Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. JAMES BRANCH CABELL Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are so... HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers, VIJAY BATRA Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody ag... KATE MOSSE The people who are raising the objections are good people
I just happen to disagree with them. DEBORAH ELLIS The public schools have to be guarded against promoting a religion. We exist for the purpose of prom... BRIAN RYHERD It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against
another man's oration,--nay, it is... PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is a... PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a... PLUTARCH Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength. VICTORIA SCHWAB This is a plan which I have mentioned before that they are insisting to carry on with their attacks ... YASSER ARAFAT You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again... APURVA GAGLANI The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life. ANUJ SOMANY As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio... ANGELA DAVIS Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us ag... ROSENSTOCK HUESSY We don't have any objections to managed care. If people want to join long-term managed-care plans, t... DAVE BRUNS There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought aga... NELSON MANDELA The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the sa... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW They're good kids, both of them. And I know that about them, because of the fact that as tough as th... MICHAEL PLUMLEY Today's statement of objections is unjustified. BRAD SMITH The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k... LESLIE DIXON WEATHERHEAD Courage is the determination to act against one's own doubt. JECON B. NADELA Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of ... ERWIN ROMMEL The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. MILAN KUNDERA The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k... LESLIE WEATHERHEAD The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting MILAN KUNDERA Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all ... ADAM WEISHAUPT Ray didn't have to complete more than 20 passes against Toronto, ... [With a running game] Edmonton ... GREG FRERS In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the... BERTRAND RUSSELL In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with... BERTRAND RUSSELL And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed u... BIBLE IT IS A COMMON REPROACH AGAINST CHRISTIANITY THAT ITS dogmas are unchanging, while human knowledge i... C.S. LEWIS If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superst... C.S. LEWIS No doubt. Those corners played their fannies off against the best wide receiver in the country. CHUCK AMATO These people have battled against all the odds... they have done things that most of could never ima... DEBBIE SCOTT During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought aga... NELSON MANDELA An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. BIBLE A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. GUNDERSON I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored an... JOHN STEINBECK There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the peo... ROY BENNETT There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored an... JOHN STEINBECK You do have a lot of personal attacks against the president, but they don't detract from the real is... BRIAN DARLING Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against... EMMA GOLDMAN The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a lo... EZRA TAFT BENSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON We need to deliver a revised proposal that meets their objections. BILL ACKMAN Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' cl... CHRISTINA ENGELA It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, ... JODI PICOULT Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment.... SHIMON PERES Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as ha... ALAN ALDA It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put ... GWEN MOORE When there were objections that could have gone one way or the other way, they usually went Brian's ... BARRY HAZEN A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. GUNDERSON As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourse... JEFFERY DEAVER It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections. GEORGE COX One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the d... GARRY KASPAROV I don't anticipate objections. JACQUELINE GOLD The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a tota... JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN If I have to take police protection in my own country from my own people, then there is something wr... NARENDRA DABHOLKAR There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army. ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISI The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscur... ANDREA DWORKIN I think that the kids proved to themselves that they can play against a quality team that not too ma... BRIAN PRITTS It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi... RON REAGAN You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi... RON REAGAN Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims... KAREN ARMSTRONG For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against wes... ED RENDELL Shack was inconsistent this spring, especially throwing strikes. He did a good job against the left-... JERRY NARRON I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. DIANE SETTERFIELD One of the main objections, I think, was that I am American. RICHARD MEIER The vast majority of those people are found. With some people, they are missing because they want to... LT. RAHN FARDER Constant Spring have been a tricky opponent for us over the years... they have always been difficult... DONOVAN HAYLES O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel
(Who had no doubt some noble ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. SOREN KIERKEGAARD It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale.... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic... SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle... SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come... SOREN KIERKEGAARD That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity. SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle... SOREN KIERKEGAARD It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de... SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i... SOREN KIERKEGAARD